You yourself called them 'Southeast Asians' in your prior post. Your being married to one makes you no expert on Asians, just as my being South Asian (notice the parallel suffix?) does not make me one.
It's about basic literacy.
No, it doesn't. Sorry. It is about PC cr*p. People taking offense at standard colloquialisms and trying to force everyone else to follow their standard.
"Southeast Asian" to represent the Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and other countries of that area. Also a common representation.
I never claimed to be an expert, only to show that I am not "geographically challenged." (Another clue that you have a PC hangup.)
You yourself called them 'Southeast Asians' in your prior post. Your being married to one makes you no expert on Asians, just as my being South Asian (notice the parallel suffix?) does not make me one.
Btw, "Asian" is not the same as "South Asian" in the sense that, colloquially speaking, Asian by itself generally means someone or something from one of the countries I mentioned or that general area (Mongolia, etc.) Generally, the "mongoloid" peoples of Asia. Qualified, it means something else.
South Asian represents someone from the south of Asia. It is qualified by the word "South."
Southeast Asian represents someone from the southeast area of Asia.
West Asian would represent someone from the west area of Asia.
This is just typical use. I did not make it up. Go into an "Asian" food store and you will generally get Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Vietnamese/Thai and similar foods. Once in a while you may also get some Indian type stuff but generally not. You won't get Russian, Israeli/Middle East, Turkish, or any other types of food in those stores even though all those places are on the continent of Asia.
Look at where the "Asia Times" newspaper was from.
Look at how "Asian" is used to describe people in the media (when used alone). It is invariably used to describe the "Mongoloid" peoples of Asia.
The term has become more popular I think after the PC shutdown of the word "Oriental" for the Mongoloid people's of Asia. (Even though actual people from those parts of Asia seem to have no problem with Oriental -- Oriental Land Company, Oriental Daily News, and here locally to me in the US, the "Oriental Store", a Korean run store that carries mainly Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and SW Asian food stuffs)
(Ok, I'll stop now, since readers -- including me -- must be totally bored with this off-topic cr*p. Feel free to knock yourself out responding).
Wow, talking about irony...
You're either offended by the word "Asians", or you're so bored that you're just nitpicking.
If you really want me to say it more exact: I mean some members of the Han Chinese community from mainland China. Is that specific enough?
There are also non-Chinese scalpers, but the Chinese have made it into an art, scalping anything which is in high demand: bus tickets, foreign baby milk powder, foreign baby food, western brand products, houses and shares, to name a few of them.
Yes, I think share traders are very much the same as scalpers. They do the same thing with shares, but in a more efficient way so they have time to be bored.
Some unrelated trivia: In Dutch they have a name for nitpickers: miereneukers (antf@ckers). Just imagine how small their external organ will be to do that. ????
Enough of this off-topic stuff. I'm going to enjoy my weekend. You all should do that too ????
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Lol. It's no 'PC cr*p'.
You yourself called them 'Southeast Asians' in your prior post. Your being married to one makes you no expert on Asians, just as my being South Asian (notice the parallel suffix?) does not make me one.
It's about basic literacy.
No, it doesn't. Sorry. It is about PC cr*p. People taking offense at standard colloquialisms and trying to force everyone else to follow their standard.
"Southeast Asian" to represent the Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and other countries of that area. Also a common representation.
I never claimed to be an expert, only to show that I am not "geographically challenged." (Another clue that you have a PC hangup.)
P*ss in the wind all you want.
Yep, stay classy now!
You yourself called them 'Southeast Asians' in your prior post. Your being married to one makes you no expert on Asians, just as my being South Asian (notice the parallel suffix?) does not make me one.
Btw, "Asian" is not the same as "South Asian" in the sense that, colloquially speaking, Asian by itself generally means someone or something from one of the countries I mentioned or that general area (Mongolia, etc.) Generally, the "mongoloid" peoples of Asia. Qualified, it means something else.
South Asian represents someone from the south of Asia. It is qualified by the word "South."
Southeast Asian represents someone from the southeast area of Asia.
West Asian would represent someone from the west area of Asia.
This is just typical use. I did not make it up. Go into an "Asian" food store and you will generally get Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Vietnamese/Thai and similar foods. Once in a while you may also get some Indian type stuff but generally not. You won't get Russian, Israeli/Middle East, Turkish, or any other types of food in those stores even though all those places are on the continent of Asia.
Look at where the "Asia Times" newspaper was from.
Look at how "Asian" is used to describe people in the media (when used alone). It is invariably used to describe the "Mongoloid" peoples of Asia.
The term has become more popular I think after the PC shutdown of the word "Oriental" for the Mongoloid people's of Asia. (Even though actual people from those parts of Asia seem to have no problem with Oriental -- Oriental Land Company, Oriental Daily News, and here locally to me in the US, the "Oriental Store", a Korean run store that carries mainly Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and SW Asian food stuffs)
Yep, stay classy now!
Do you even know what it means?
Irony-challenged much?
(Ok, I'll stop now, since readers -- including me -- must be totally bored with this off-topic cr*p. Feel free to knock yourself out responding).
Wow, talking about irony...
You're either offended by the word "Asians", or you're so bored that you're just nitpicking.
If you really want me to say it more exact: I mean some members of the Han Chinese community from mainland China. Is that specific enough?
There are also non-Chinese scalpers, but the Chinese have made it into an art, scalping anything which is in high demand: bus tickets, foreign baby milk powder, foreign baby food, western brand products, houses and shares, to name a few of them.
Yes, I think share traders are very much the same as scalpers. They do the same thing with shares, but in a more efficient way so they have time to be bored.
Some unrelated trivia: In Dutch they have a name for nitpickers: miereneukers (antf@ckers). Just imagine how small their external organ will be to do that. ????
Enough of this off-topic stuff. I'm going to enjoy my weekend. You all should do that too ????